Club Med: For a Family Vacation with(out) Your Kids

Let me explain: going to Club Med with your family is a great idea. There is something for everyone. The kids will love it. It’s not particularly luxurious, but it’s relaxed, and fun, and usually in a beautiful spot. But for us, now that our kids are older, it was kind of like going on a vacation without the kids.

See, Club Med has Baby Club Med, Mini Club Med, and for older kids (11 –17) The Ramp. Once kids are that age, there’s no signing them in, there’s no constant supervision. What there is is a great balance between supervised activities and the freedom to come and go and the kids choose.

And my kids chose to go.To the ramp. A lot.

But don’t take my word for it. Take a look at this:

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From KidzVuz.com.

And she wasn’t the only one who loved the trip. We’re even thinking of going back with the entire extended family for Grandma’s (big) birthday celebration.

And for someone who doesn’t like to go to the same place twice…that’s pretty much the best praise there is.

About The Author

Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman is a married mother of ten year old boy/girl twins living in NYC. She is a third generation Manhattanite who loves to travel -- as long as she knows she'll eventually make it back to the greatest city in the world. An award-winning television writer, Nancy spent nearly 20 years as a freelancer working for Lifetime, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, A&E, Nickelodeon -- just to name a few. Her humor essays on motherhood have been syndicated in the online versions of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, and The Charlotte Observer, in the multiple award-winning Brain, Child magazine, in the anthologies The Knitters Gift (Avalon Press 2005) and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press 2007).
Nancy blogs about momming, aging, and her 20 year quest to lose the same 10 pounds at FromHiptoHousewife.com. She has a weekly podcast with three friends, The Blogging Angels.